La Liga warms up: This is how football will be at Christmas

LaLiga Returns after a month in pause by the World-wide of Qatar and will contest his day 15 in the last days of the year. The date will open it the Girona and the Ray Vallecano in the Municipal stadium of Montilivi next Thursday 29 December to the 17.00 hours, in a meeting that will give initiated to the turn of the football in Catalonia and also in all Spain.

Betis And Athletic Bilbao will measure in a partidazo at 19.15h, whereas the Athletic of Madrid will close the day in front of the Elche in the Cívitas Metropolitan happened the 21.30h. The thickness of the parties will give the Friday 30 December also from the 17.00h with Mallorca-Getafe, followed of the Celtic-Seville (19.15h) and Cádiz-Almería (19.15h). By his part the Real Madrid, the one who will take leadership in the last meeting of the day, will visit to the Valladolid at 21.30h in José Zorrilla.

The merengues land like clear favourites and with the need to carry the three points if they do not want to separate even more of the peak of the championship. By his part, 'the Pucela' occupies the twelfth position in the general table and is to three parties of the European places, by what will try to attain a feat that do not achieve from 19 May of the 2000, when they won (0-1) to the whites in Santiago Bernabéu.

Already in the straight final of the day will go up the curtain the FC Barcelona in front of the RCD Espanyol. The derbi Catalan will welcome the day before of new year the Saturday 31 December from the 14.00 hours in the Spotify Camp Nou, where the culés will try to keep the leadership without the presence of Robert Lewandowski by sanction, but with a staff that has recovered in his whole and has left backwards the injuries. Sergi Roberto, Franck Kessié and Ronald Araújo will be back to close the year with brooch of gold, although the group perico will try to follow suit and move away of the places of descent. Xavi Hernández will have almost all his arms and expects to keep the footpath of the victory in this second half of the campaign.

The rest of the date

The last two commitments will carry out between the Real Sociedad and the Osasuna at 16.15h, and between Villarreal and Valencia also in the same schedule. The Basques want to keep in places of Champions but the navarros understand that a victory to domicile will keep them between the best three teams of Spain. To his time, the 'yellow submarine' wants scalar positions but will have to brake to a picture 'che' that went to the stop with a conclusive victory by (3-0) in front of the Betis. The balompié Spanish is back.